I'd love to wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011! Wont be posting anything till the end of the first week of Jan 2011...cos I'm off to NYC tomorrow! For the umpteenth time I know ! I lived in NYC a few months when I was in my 20's and visited the city several times afterwards...but I cant get enough of it :) We were planning to go to Washington DC as well, but might change our plans due to the recent snow storm, we will see! NYC 3 airports seem to be fully operating right now, with delayes but still...they are open. We will departure from Paris, which is open and running right now, but we all know that was closed last week due to lacking of defreezing solution...Lets hope that wont snow again in Paris either!

I work with travellers, tourists...I always see them all arriving and departing from holiday destinations, stress-free and looking forward to enjoy their vacation...It is my turn now! But I promise I wont be a difficult guest like many of my clients are :) I'll be polite and wont bring down the roof if a problem will come up...(ehm...not quite sure on this topic actually hihihih)

Here I am with a new card I made last night, I love it ! Love the tree with the glitters on it!

I made this card as my entry for the new CARD PATTERNS challenge # 96. It was not an easy sketch for me, cos I usually dont like sketches with a big round element in it, but I tried! :) This card will be given to a dear girl friend of mine who had just moved into a brand new home!

I'm becoming rather productive...I've done so much over the past few days. I quickly made these 2 napkin holders today, for me and my hubby. They dont look too pretty in these pix, but I swear they are rather cute :)

Sto diventando piuttosto produttiva...Ho fatto parecchio negli scorsi giorni. Oggi ho velocemente fatto due portatovaglioli, per me ed il maritozzo. Non sembrano troppo carini in queste foto, ma giuro che invece sono piuttosto carucci :))And this is another "SPECIAL CARD". This is the story: I wanted to present my hubby with a trendy and cool jacket for XMas, this is...I couldn't find the right one, and I prefered him to try it on. So...I made this special card which will be wrapped as a XMas gift...

Please note that I still have to stick the message on the card.

I used My Minds Eye paper (printed out on a A4 paper) and made the jacket myself using felt and some wooden beads as buttons.

This is a special card, a special present. A card that can be a nice token for those occasiones when you do want to give a pressie but have no ideas or you cant find the right thing. On the cover it say "for you", then you open it up and it says "I've searched the seas..." turn the page and it says "...and I've searched the mountains..." and on the very last page it say "...but I couldnt fint that very special pressie for you. This card voucher for a relaxing afternoon of shopping searching for that special something..."

Nice, innit?

Questa e' una card speciale, uno speciale regalino. Una card che puo' essere un carino "buono" per quelle occasioni quando non trovate il regalo azzeccato, o quando proprio non avete idee...A recipe book for an italian friend. I swear I made it with so much passion, unfortunatelly it did not turn out to be just like I wanted...I'm def *not* into minialbums and this sort of things, sob.

I'm not very much into xmas projects, and the main reason is cos I do not have the necessary calm and patience to seat down and start working on a project that might see me working at it for the next 10 days, I'm into things that can be done rather quickly. Anyhow, this year I decided to indulge into chocolate and thought that the "12 days of xmas" tradition was a lovely yummy excuse :) If you do not know what this is all about please google it (or read here ).

Bought 24 assorted chocolates by Lindt, one each ( me & my hubby!) one for each day. Thing is...I was so much into this thing that I totally forgot the fact that we wont be home during the 12 days of xmas, we will be in New York and Washington. Doesnt matter, I decided to make them all anyway and we are enjoying them NOW instead of starting on Dec 26th :)

I've used some wage-envelopes that I bought in a stationary shop back in 2006 while living and working in the Grenadines Islands. Dont even recall why I bought these lil' envelopes, they just looked cute and thought they might come handy one day...I was right!!! :))

The idea of using envelopes is totally mine but the truth is that I was inspired by a great project by the owner of this blog " SCISSORS & COLOURS". Thank you, what a adorable bunch of small packets you created :))

Here we go with a new card! This is my entry for the sketch that CARD PATTERNS posted a few days back, I loved this sketch, gave me the chance to make this very pinky card which will be presented to a lil' girl in January, she will turn 3 :)

Let me show you the card I made for the sketch # 009 by "Sketchalicious". It's not the best card ever, I know, I wanted to make a prettier one but hey...this is what came out :)The followings are new xmas cards I made a few days back. This first one will be delivered to an italian friend of mine, the others will go to a couple of dear friends.What do you think..are they cute?

Ok I must admit it, over the past year I've printed out most of the papers and elements I've used in my cards and layouts. Have been saved the preview from My Minds Eye website and printed it out on a white rough cardstock. The end result is actually pretty good. You can actually spot these papers in a few of my previous layouts and cards.

I can easly say that with this LO I've killed two birds with one stone :) In fact it allows me to take part this month reader gallery on "Pencil Lines"....and I also used this sketch to create a LO theamed "white". This second entry is for the Xmas Game "Lotteria di Natale", currently on. ASi-Forum...of course :) I love this kind of games cos they give me the chance to scrap and get ideas, they give me that particular "twist" I need to star scrapbooking.